Electricity Project

[MrElectricity]

I am wondering about what to do as a school project with my 11year old, any ideas?

[global88]

Hey thats pretty cool !

I did a project on calculating average speed and motion with my son years ago for physics.

We built a 6 inch rocket out of balsa wood and bored out the bottom to fit a co gas bottle like the ones used in soda water makers for the engine.

A long piece of fishing string was tied between goal posts for the full lenght of the football field.

2 Hooks screwed into the rocket. Rocket hooked onto fishing wire.

Puncture a hole in the co bottle and watch her fly.

Lots of fun!

Damm fast.

[z80]

make it a solar cell power source.....


very nice post.....

[best4less]

OK you want a project

On my pile of "to do list" is this one.
Get a old DVD burner out of a computer and
strip it down and get the laser out of it.
And then mount it in to some sought of optical device
to narrow the laser beam down so it burns/melts things.
And with this you go to the shops where they have amusement machines,
and you know the machine where they have the prizes (like DS Lites, cameras....)
hanging up by some fishing line inside a glass cabinet

And the rest I will leave up to your imagination

[MrElectricity]

It has to be simple so my daughter can do most of it by her self under my supervision. She wont learn anything if I make a laser canon as some may suggest LOL

[global88]

@ best4less, your kids dont hangout at airports do they?

[best4less]

These looks like some very cool sites for what you need

[best4less]

@ best4less, your kids dont hangout at airports do they?

Nah not yet but i did get the young one go in to
the chemist once and ask for a 4 litre bottle of pseudoephedrine LOL

[MrElectricity]

These looks like some very cool sites for what you need

The club site is cool but maybe a bit advanced for primary school the second one I was on that earlier they have some cool ideas but it's mostly a guide to teachers as to what to set as a project rather than how to do it although there is a bit of how to.

[Joey]

One of favourite projects as a kid , using no batteries but only the electricity that surrounds us .
A Crystal Radio , so simple and so much fun for kids .

[MrElectricity]

Yes I made one many years ago from old buster radio parts, very rewarding.

[urban_s0ulja]

you know
what would be really really interesting
make her very rich and highly sort after

reverse engineer ir2/ir3

[urban_s0ulja]

ahah jokes aside
i made a electro magnetic bell in yr5 which ran off a 12 volt power source.

ive still probably got it somwhere. It worked really well.

[MrElectricity]

I don't think that is going to happen some how.

[bulbous]

I want to know how the motor (in the moving JPEG, post #1) commutates !

[RHCP]

Nothing beats the original erupting paper mache volcano??? (Being the original person that i am, this was my primary school science project)

RHCP.

[biggeorge]

Brush bot soccer team..

Google it.

[covert]

Lego mindstorm. (youtube it)

[crazy]

make an electric shock box, we made one in high school for a project. was lots of entertainment!!

[iwacelect]

I want to know how the motor (in the moving JPEG, post #1) commutates !

i'm with bulbous, if thats cosher why not stuck in one spot????

if you've got time try this project, our apprentice was instructed on how to biuld this from workshop throw aways bits he got a bit of a shock when he demonstrated this at tafe



needless to say, he not allowed to take stuff to tafe anymore!